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Megan Whitney

Megan helps changemakers build leadership skills and navigate burnout through 1/1 coaching, speaking, and guided meditations on Insight Timer. Her work offers you mindfulness, self-compassion, and somatic tools to release stress and cultivate calm.

She is an ICF certified coach (ACC), 19 year nonprofit professional, and Search Inside Yourself organizational teacher who feels passionate about building community and helping you make an impact without losing yourself.

Megan offers expertise in making mindfulness accessible and creating cultures of collective care in the workplace. She founded a 400+ person Mindfulness Community for a national hunger-relief nonprofit, taught mindful leadership skills to hundreds of food bankers, and sparked a ripple effect of mindful micropractices being embedded into many U.S. nonprofits.

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The Nonprofit Burnout Crisis Part 2
Incorporating Mindfulness at Your Nonprofit

The Nonprofit Burnout Crisis Part 2: Megan’s Story + How to Know if You’re Burned Out

Article for The Nonprofit Hive

Incorporating Mindfulness at Your Nonprofit

Lead With Heart Podcast

Corporate vs. Non-Profit Burnout

Corporate vs. Non-Profit Burnout

LinkedIn Live with Workplace Wellness Hour

7 Ways to Manage Stress with Compassion

The Nonprofit Burnout Crisis Part 3: What I Wish I’d Known About Stress When I Burned Out

Article for The Nonprofit Hive

Staying Resilient: How Fundraisers Can Thrive in Uncertain Times

Staying Resilient: How Fundraisers Can Thrive in Uncertain Times

Webinar with Veritus Group

How Mindfulness and Intentionality Can Change the World

How Mindfulness and Intentionality Can Change the World

LinkedIn Live with Brian Ford

Burnout and Self-Compassion in Fundraising
Feeling Burned Out in the Nonprofit World?

Burnout and Self-Compassion in Fundraising

Nothing But Major Gifts Podcast

Feeling Burned Out in the Nonprofit World?

LinkedIn Live with The Nonprofit Hive

Mindfulness at Work

Navigating Now EP214: Integrating Mindfulness Into Your Workday

LinkedIn Live with Nicole Zeimis at Thoughtium

The Nonprofit Burnout Crisis Part 4: A Deeper Reason Behind Nonprofit Burnout (and Why Quitting Your Job Isn’t Enough)

Article for The Nonprofit Hive

How to Stop Nonprofit Burnout with Megan Whitney

How to Stop Nonprofit Burnout with Megan Whitney

Nonprofit Nation Podcast

Nonprofit Burnout Team Workshops

Workshops for Teams

Help your colleagues relieve stress with a customized mindfulness workshop, presentation, or guided meditation

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I love communicating about:

  • Sustainable strategies for alleviating stress and anxiety

  • Practical ways to create a supportive, inclusive nonprofit culture that fosters focus, creativity, and collective well-being

  • Integrating short, restorative mindfulness practices into your team rituals and workday

  • Recognizing the early warning signs of burnout and understanding the unique reasons why nonprofit professionals burn out trying to create systems of justice

  • Building healthy habits and designing a daily meditation practice to strengthen leadership skills and calm your nervous system

  • Centering relationships, embracing uncomfortable conversations, and communicating mindfully

  • Cultivating self-compassion, resilience, and emotional intelligence skills that support equity and belonging

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Speaking Testimonials

  • "Megan truly has a gift for guiding mindfulness exercises in the workplace. She created a wonderful 4-min video that we played before all of our volunteer packing shifts. This was the first time we’ve ever started our volunteer shifts with a mindfulness/intention setting practice, and the feedback was nothing short of amazing!"

    -Jennifer Powell, Chief Development Officer at Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

  • “I am grateful to have attended a workshop led by Megan about the intersection of mindfulness and DEI. The somatic tools and techniques we discussed (and practiced!) have been helpful to me personally and I think are critical to preventing burnout and sustaining our commitment to radically transform ourselves and our society. I look forward to bringing these practices to my team and organization.”

    -Blair Janis

  • "I feel like Megan is like the queen of simplicity. It's like it doesn't have to be that complicated."

    -Becky Endicott, We Are For Good Podcast Host, referring to the way I share mindfulness with folks

  • "Megan has a serene presence that made me feel comfortable, calm, and cared for. She is enthusiastic, compassionate, energetic, and her unrelenting kindness came through the screen so vividly."

    -Mindfulness Program Participant

  • "Megan is world class and great at reaching those of us doing the work in hunger relief. She is wonderful with making us feel special, heard, and safe."

    -Mindfulness Program Participant

  • "Megan came to the sessions with a tangible sense of calm and warmth. She really excelled at leading meditations that felt impactful. Her empathy came through in every interaction with attendees. She connected all of her examples and stories to something relatable and clear, and was vulnerable without oversharing."

    -Mindfulness Program Participant

  • "Megan knows what it's like to integrate mindfulness practices in the context of food banking work. I really admire her transparency, authenticity, and vulnerability as a teacher."

    -Mindfulness Program Participant

  • "Megan is an outstanding facilitator, mentor and coach. She is a uniquely graceful and powerful leader, with profound intelligence and integrity. Megan communicates in a warm and gentle style, with a sweet sense of humor that lightens our often challenging work. I highly recommend working with Megan. She is truly a gift."

    -Olivia Teter, Head of Innovation at Second Harvest of Silicon Valley